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- Immediate tips for using this website are contained in the pop-up Help!
pages throughout the website. We do suggest, however, that you familiarize yourself with
the basic navigation through the site before you use it with your students.
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- We have heard from a number of teachers using the site that they sometimes have trouble
with the speed at which pages and images appear on the computer screen. We have discovered
that this problem most often occurs in the context of a computer lab, when 25-30 students
are simultaneously trying to use the website. We have also discovered that this problem is
often a so-called "client-side" problem (that is, it is often the school
district's server that is slow). If this happens to you, you might consider several
possible solutions.
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- First, you might consider having small groups of students working at the machines,
rather than individual students. Groups of three students, for example, would decrease the
strain on the system by at least 2/3s.
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- Second, you might consider getting a CD-ROM disk copy of the web-site to load on your
district's and school's server. Or if possible, you might consider asking the person in
charge of the lab to "web-whack" the Doing History site to your local server.
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- A third alternative is to bring-up the Doing History website on each computer and put
some of the pages students will be using in cache before you take the students to the lab
(your media center specialist may be able to help with this).
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